The weather was cold and foggy, not the best biking weather. We biked around the FSU campus and stadium, and the Historic Capitol building.
We GPS'ed our way to a neat coffee shop called All Saints Cafe... unfortunately to get there we had to bike through a not-so-nice part of town with broken sidewalks, but it was definitely worth it!
Along the way to Mobile we stopped at a little town called Defuniak Springs. We found a little antique store where I bought an old Christmas ornament, a souvenir I am hoping to get in each city we stay in! ... Though I'm not so sure I really want a reminder of Defuniak Springs... After lunch, we hit Pensacola and biked around the Historic Downtown. It was sooo cold!
Our host for Mobile let us know about a Couch Surfing gathering that was going on around 5:30 PM tonight, so she told us to swing by her house around 5 PM so we could ride together. We got into the city around 4 PM and explored the downtown area on foot.
We met our host, (another!) Meagan, at her historic apartment in a cute residential part of Mobile.
We rode to the Blue Gill Restaurant along the water, where we met up with Meagan's boyfriend Sergio and the couple that he was hosting, Cody and Jake from Utah, along with some other members of the Mobile CS community. The CS'ers in Mobile are extremely active: they're a small group but one of them is almost always hosting a surfer, and they try to get everyone together if two or more of them have guests. The restaurant was hosting a local bluegrass band called Delta Reign and we enjoyed some local beers and really great banjo- and fiddle-playing for a few hours!
My high for today was the bluegrass music... it was really neat listening to the very fast songs they played; Josh's high was walking around downtown Mobile and taking goofy photos. My low was the weather! It has been so cold in this region, and we are not really prepared to be so cold so soon on the trip! Josh's low was that he was extremely tired at the bluegrass show and had to work hard to pay attention to our host. Josh's "ho" was seeing a tire fall off of a semi truck while on the highway, and my "ho" was definitely my shower experience... I hopped in the shower after we returned from the restaurant, and first the water was freezing cold; I tried to bear it but had to jump out early before I actually did any showering. I had hung my towel on the curtain rod and I pulled it to get it off, but I brought down the curtain and curtain rod with it! It wasn't difficult to re-hang everything, but it was definitely embarrassing!
Tomorrow we will be in New Orleans, and until today we didn't have a host. Luckily, Meagan had recently hosted someone from New Orleans and he agreed to host us tomorrow night! It's definitely all about who you know!
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